'I want Aeryn to have a female friendship, and I'm dying to have that with Chiana. I just think that it's such a rare occurence to have a large percentage of female viewers on a science fiction show and to have such strong female characters. Since there's been a friendship between D'Argo and Crichton that's grown significantly, one should be growing conversely between the females.'
Interviewer: Does David Kemper understand women?
'Probably not. I'm sure, personally, he doesn't understand women at all. I don't think men and women understand each other. I think it's a big, fantastic curse. [But] he understands enough to put enough on the page for us to then take it and turn it into something that we understand or want to portray.
And David has always given us the opportunities. He always invites us up to the writers' office and says, "You want to get involved? Get involved. You want to have stories? Come and tell me." So he's always made the opportunity available to us. So it's about taking them.'
'I've been mentioning ideas. I don't know if I'd want to follow Ben and actually write an episode. David would make my life hell. That would be my only reason not to vie for a position to write an episode.
Also, Ben is quite brilliant. He's a very intelligent man and he has a very good understanding of this genre and the way that the stories are written and structured on Farscape. He's married with kids and was working an 80-hour week and still managed to deliver the script on time, which a lot of the writers haven't done. Ben's just that kind of guy.
People can't help but draw comparisons, so if I were then to write an episode I'd be setting myself up for a huge fall, potentially. Not that I'm afraid of that, but I feel I owe it to the show, which spends a lot of money to do an episode, to work out whether I'm worth that, whether I want to take the risk on behalf of other people.
If a script doesn't work you're affecting upwards of 200 people. So it's the responsibility factor that I'm mostly concerned about when I think about possibly writing an episode.'
[Apparently "The Choice" was her favorite ep this season, and she talks about how important it was to her to show that Aeryn could carry an ep alone]:
'We wanted The Choice to be dark and subtle. Some of the fans didn't respond to it terribly well on the first viewing and some of them said it was a masterpiece ...'
'Farscape, even if it does nothing more for me professionally, inside it's been an enormous learning ground and it will continue to be. And personally, I don't know what will compare to it. These people are my family and I'll also be able to look back and say it was a privilege to be at the helm of such an expensive and glorious train set. We all appreciate that.'
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